To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written August 27, 1909Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXV.

      Sent from Bombon to Arcachon.

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Iam sending youVorwärts[2]and Kamenev’s article. I believe itmustbe printed andwithout delay, for we are terribly
late as it is with this article which is in all respects absolutely
necessary forProletary. It will have to be divided into two
feuilletons. The first (pp. 1–33) I have marked off and edited. Perhaps
you will be able to shorten it a little more? I will try to cut it some
more in the proofs; send it immediately to the printers and have them sendme the proofs atonce. The article is an important one and we
should go over it as carefully as possible.

Itis a pity that Kamenev works carelessly. The subject is a most
rewarding one, but he rambles on and on, beating about the bush, unable to
get to the heart of the matter properly.

Perhapswe should send the second half hack to him for rewriting from
this angle? I think it would be a good thing. Write him on behalf of us
both and ask him towritethe second partover again(saving the first variant as well), to revise it along the lines
indicated—tell him that this would make it an excellent article,
etc.—and send him the second part. I have no great hopes that he will
redo it, but we must keep insisting.

Healso promised an editorial forProletaryshortly. We shall
see.

Ishall write the articles forProletaryand send them
straight to the
			       printers[1]since you want to be in Paris on September 4.

Ido not intend to return before September 15.

Thereis no point in your keeping Kamenev in Arcachon. If he has had a
rest, let him return, andunder all circumstances he must be sent out
to lecture.

Allthe best,N. Lenin

Ishall not undertake to write about the Bund people.  But it isnecessaryto hit at their No. 2. You should do it.  We’ll put out
a big, fighting issue. Write an article against
No. 2.[3]

[1]Areference to Lenin’s articles forProletaryNo. 47–48
entitled:
“The Liquidators Exposed”, “On the Open Letter of the Executive
Committee of the Moscow Regional Committee”, “The Election in
St. Petersburg”, and an article in the supplement to the issue, “The
Faction of Supporters of Otzovism and God-Building” (see present edition,
Vol. 16, pp. 15–61.—Ed.

[2]Vorwärts, the Central Organ of the German Social-Democrats,
carried daily in late July and in August 1909 articles and detailed reports
on they Barcelona uprising (beginning with No. 174, July 29) and the
general strike in Sweden (beginning with No. 178, August 2). Lenin sent the
issues to Zinoviev to be used as source material for articles inProletary.

Thearticle by L. B. Kamenev referred to was his “The Liquidation of
the Hegemony of the Proletariat in the Menshevik History of the Russian
Revolution (How A. Potresov Liquidated G. Plekhanov andIskra)”
reviewing the five-volumeThe Social Movement in Russia at the
Beginning of the Twentieth Centuryput out by the Mensheviks, edited
by L. Martov, P. Maslov and A. Potresov. The article was printed inProletaryNos. 47–48 and 49, September 5 (18) and October 3 (16),
1909.

[3]Probablya reference to the September 1909 issue (No. 2) ofGolos
Bunda(Voice of the Bund), organ of the C.C. of the Bund, published
illegally in Russia.Proletarycarried nothing on the subject. A
news item aboutGolos BundaNo. 2 appeared inSotsial-DemokratNo. 9, November 13 (October 31).